Why are some things just not shared and you have to experience them in order to know about them? Here’s a little list of things I wish weren’t so secretive in our existence:
1. The fact that miscarriages happen to most women at some point in their life. I think if we talked about it more then women would have a safe place to talk about it. They would know they are not alone and they would have friends to help them through the whole bloody(literally) process.
2. Contraceptives. Sure, I get it, we don’t talk about sex much period and it may be uncomfortable for some people to talk about it, but seriously, when I got married I had no clue about what was available for our family planning needs. It would have been nice to know about options. And seriously, talking about these things will not make kids run around and have more sex. The stats are pretty much the same as they have always been. It’s actually less than 50% of teens that are considered “sexually active.”
3. Those stats would actually be nice to have known as a teen too. Because of our lovely media, most kids walk around thinking there is something wrong with them because they are virgins. Maybe they would stay that way longer had they known this but if information!
4. That you can use apple sauce instead of oil when baking. You’re welcome.
5. All the stuff that happens in the whole process of pregnancy and after having a baby. Let’s face it all the stuff about procreation needs to be talked about more. Who knew you would bleed for a week after having a baby? Who knew during that time you would have horrible cramps? Who knew that breastfeeding would also cause horrible cramping? Who also knew that breastfeeding is way hard and takes most moms and babies about six weeks to figure it out? Yeah, six long weeks of hurting and frustration.
Let’s not keep secrets, unless you are talking about my flaws. Then go ahead and keep those to yourself.
